Colm O'Regan: From Lizzo to Dolly, my daughters are getting their freak on

“Can you put on the Hip Hop women Daddy?” the girls ask. I don’t know what music they’ll like in future but I’m not sure they’re going to go back to The Wiggles any time soon. I may have opened a Pandora’s Box. I can’t remember how we drifted onto it. It could have been that I was trying to ration the cartoons and suggested some music instead.

As Jon Kenny of d’Unbelievables might say, “whatever move I made”, there was Missy Misdemeanour Elliott, bould as brass. Their first Hip Hop Woman was the First Lady of Hip Hop. Not a bad start. Getting her Freak On to bate the band. Now we didn’t get into the meaning of the lyrics thankfully. The eldest asked but now understand it’s grownup stuff and she just loves the beat. The youngest is a bit scared by the absolute fever dream of a video with people lurking in sewer pipes as their freak was got on, no doubt.